As the most eagerly awaited film of all time, Star Wars: Episode I - the Phantom Menace, opens in the USA, Professor Lisa Jardine explores the Star Wars prequel phenomenon and draws parallels with the Medicis of medieval
Florence, who used their own prequels from Classical Greece and Rome to reshape Christianity.
Ten years after the massacre in Tiananmen Square,
Ian Buruma tracks down a number of the exiled Chinese student leaders in New York and explores the factions now dividing them. Series editor Archie Baron Subtitled.